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Team Members: Andreana Papantoniou, Carolina Libardi, Erina Filipovska FROM MONOFUNCTIONAL TO YBRID: TRANSFORMING THE BARRIO INTO INDEPENDENT UNIT Upgrating / Connecting.  Idea of a multifunctional neighborhoods, which permits development of new functional units as working spaces, on the existing city formation. It is not a project but a strategy of upgrading, which proposes dynamic design [...]

The aim is to propose an interactive urban mesh which will work as a tool to measure the real time CO2 emission. The intension is to make a shift in the process of getting energy from a distant source to a locally producing energy source. One of our primary goal was to use the recent [...]

Contrary to our first opinion of Montjuic, the site does not absorb carbon emissions thanks to the abundant green spaces but in fact emits large quantities of these emissions from the museums and other public attractors. Thus it was necessary to transform the role that Montjuic played and help maintain the ecological balance. Given the location adjacent [...]

Taking advantage of the topography of the crowns in Barcelona, we are proposing hydro-electric power plants that use a loop system where turbines generate energy as water flows down, and pumps the water to reservoirs at low peak hours.  These would be placed in the existing sewers and drains at three different scales: the building [...]

Team Members: Carlo Caltabiano http://legacy.iaacblog.com/barcelona0emision/author/carlocaltabiano/ Amay Gurkar http://legacy.iaacblog.com/barcelona0emision/author/amayudaygurkar/ J. Antonio Tamez. http://legacy.iaacblog.com/barcelona0emision/2010/12/03/noise-mapping-torre-baro-ciutat-meridiana-vallbona/ The area comprising Torre Baró, Ciutat Meridiana and Vallbona, located in the northeast of Barcelona, because of its location and history, is a zone that shows very distinct characteristics proper to the site, ranging from very different building typologies (from single family housing [...]

For mobility our main objective was to find strategies to reduce the CO2 emission produced by cars circulating searching for a parking space.Our first step was to map street parking and garage parking (both private and public), and compared this to the building usage and density of the area. Then based on the mapping we [...]